KANSAS CITY — Lynn Dornblaser, a client adviser with the Chicago-based market researcher Mintel, once defined clean label as “using things you’d find in your grandmother’s pantry.” Today, the meaning ...

Since the 1990s, foods sold in the U.S. have come with a familiar black-and-white table listing out their nutritional facts in precise detail down to the milligrams of protein and carbohydrates. Some ...

As the food industry continues to move toward simpler, more transparent ingredient systems, California walnuts stand out as a ...

Clean label’s meaning continues to evolve since its industry-facing inception in the mid-2000s when it focused on health and safety, to now include simple ingredients and processing methods and ...

Scan any grocery store shelf and you'll likely spot the term "natural flavors" scattered across ingredient lists. It sounds reassuring, right? Almost wholesome. Yet the reality behind this vague label ...

For more than a century, the U.S. government has tried to bring more transparency to food labels. It started in 1906, when the Pure Food and Drug Act cracked down on mislabeled ingredients and false ...